Thank you for your reply.skipster wrote:This seems to be the classic high oil consumption usage that affected early models, mine is a 60 plate (MY2011), and VW replaced the engine at 8K, not without numerous tests first though.
I think the garage are trying to fob you off by sending you away for another 1K miles, I am certain the same thing will happen especially as it has done 40K.
Sounds like your car has not had the basic mods of cam breather hose and software update. Does it have full VW Service history?
The tell tale signs for me were blue smoke coming out of the exhaust when moving off (once oil is hot) and when booting it having been on constant revs for a while.
Mine used about 1 litre every 600 miles at worse!
Does your car have many previous owners?
Don't panic though as the car should still run reliably but it is not right, but even the replacement engines use oil, I am on about 1 Litre per 3000 miles. I would get it back to the supplying dealer as soon as convenient as this is a well known issue.
Yes the car does have I believe 4 previous owners which is a lot for a 5/6 year old car. Also it has a stamp for oil change at 35k in 2015 then another stamp for another oil change at 38k which was 8 months later. Looking back now it seems obvious that previous owners were also worried of it and got rid.
Another twist - topped the oil back to full as per their instruction, set off back home from family members house and within a few minutes I had low coolant warning. Immediately worried me because I made sure this was topped up to full on 23rd when I topped oil up. Checked it and it was a good inch below the minimum mark. It was literally a 0.5mile drive so checked when I got home and straight away noticed a leak from underneath. Oil has dropped from max on dipstick to about halfway in 3 days aswell (hardly been driven though).
Not 100% sure if its oil or water that's leaking but I just want rid of it now.
Will get onto them first thing in morn and see what they say but imo it needs towing away.
Anyone any experience of rejecting a car?